Next Sunday
is Trinity Sunday. The Trinity is the unbroken cycle of God’s love; we are part
of that cycle.
When God
made you and me God embraced us like a mother would bundle up a beloved child
to go out into the cold for the very first time. And like a parent might slip a
little identification note into a child’s pocket, just in case he or she should
get lost, God put a little piece of Godself inside of each of us. That little piece
of God is our immortal soul; it is the presence of Christ within us. Life is
the journey of our soul back home to God.
‘God’ is a word that we use to describe an indefinable
reality. Because our minds and bodies operate in time and space, we are only
comfortable thinking and speaking with intellectual constructs. We make our
Creator into our own image and likeness. We paint pictures, cut stained-glass
images, and sing songs about a transcendent reality that cannot be packaged
into the limited box of human understanding.
But what the
intellect struggles to grasp, the soul already knows. I intuitively know that
there is a central, loving, and personal source of all creation. I know this
because God embraced me before I was born.
In the New
Testament Saint John tells us that, “God is Love.” Back in the 1970s, Carole
King wrote a song entitled: ‘Only Love is Real, Everything Else An
Illusion’. For me this song speaks of God.
God is love,
a pure love that permeates the universe; a love that draws us home. We
Christians use an intellectual construct in attempting to describe the dynamic
of that pure Love. That construct is the Trinity.
The
Benedictine theologian Kilian McDonnell gave us a model he calls the Trinitarian
Cycle of Life. Father McDonnell uses this analogy to describe the
underlying Trinitarian dynamic that flows throughout the universe. In this
dynamic God as Father reaches through God as Son and in God as Holy Spirit to
touch and transform the world and the church and to lead us back home.
We are part
of that dynamic. God sent each of us into life to be a conduit of God’s love; to
help that love permeate our world. The Trinity is the unbroken cycle of God’s
love.
On
Trinity Sunday, and everyday, let us remember and rejoice, really rejoice, that
we are part of that cycle.
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Readers
of this blog might enjoy these books by Deacon Lex. Both are available on
Amazon.com:
Just to Follow My Friend: Experiencing God’s Presence in Everyday
Life
Synchronicity as the Work of the Holy Spirit: Jungian Insights for
Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Ministry
http://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Work-Holy-Spirit-Spiritual/dp/1463518781/
